Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
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For related topics, see Rock Island Line (disambiguation). For the new company, see Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (2017).
The original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway)[1] (reporting marks CRIP, RI, ROCK) was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock.
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Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois |
Reporting mark | CRIP, RI, ROCK |
Locale | Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas |
Dates of operation | October 10, 1852–March 31, 1980 |
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Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
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At the end of 1970, it operated 7,183 miles of road on 10,669 miles of track; that year it reported 20,557 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 118 million passenger miles. (Those totals may or may not include the former Burlington-Rock Island Railroad.)
The song "Rock Island Line", a spiritual from the late 1920s first recorded in 1934, was inspired by the railway.